STALKER 2 is actually quite enjoyable and has great world building, pretty solid story, and a lot of the loveable jank.

Best intuition I’ve heard for this is that “things” can’t move faster than light, but not everything is a “thing”.

Imagine doing shadow puppets on the wall with a flashlight. You move the bunny left, shadow moves left. The further away the wall is, the faster the apparent speed of the shadow bunny. You might think that, far enough away and with a strong enough light, your shadow bunny would be racing across the sky faster than the speed of light – and the crazy thing is, you’d be correct! The shadow (absence of light) can move arbitrarily fast. But the light itself is moving at its normal constant speed from the flashlight out into space, perpendicular to the travel of the bunny, like a garden hose spraying water. The time it takes for the shadow to even begin to move is governed by the speed of light. No information can be communicated faster than light because the light travels at the speed of light to illuminate the places where the shadow isn’t.

Would a nuclear or fossil fuel turbine power plant just tear itself apart if disconnected from load at speed? I vaguely understand that the load provides a sort of magnetic resistance on the spinning generator. Without load they would they spin too fast? Or is it a matter of there not being any easy way to dump the power by doing something useless with it like just melting sand or smth?

Apple is the man. Google is the man. The men claiming they are the men are just little pocket puppets.

I believe Bluetooth is always on with the Meta glasses, at least the last gen. They offload everything to the phone. I got a pair as a work gift and only use them as sunglasses with headphones built-in so I can listen to podcasts on walks.

Are the free limits suitable for light media streaming by a few users? I’m currently running a simple setup with Caddy reverse proxy and port knocking, but my ISP doesn’t do static IP and they change my address every few months.

You can just press your finger firmly on your philtrum (the little valley between your nose and lips). Pressure on the nerve that runs there immediately stops the urge to sneeze.

The antichrist is a convenient label he can apply to anyone he perceives as impeding his personal economic growth or power.

Bryan Fuller’s TV opus, primarily Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies, although the first two seasons of Hannibal are really excellent writing and storytelling. All his work deals with death, but each has something slightly different to say about it.

Matrix voice and video chat is sadly under-equipped for the only kind of thing I want (team gaming and screen share). They are working on moving to a new realtime media transport but until it manifests I can’t see it as an alternative. I’ve read about Revolt and some others but I don’t see anything that seems capable. Happy to be corrected on this!

EDIT: it looks like Element Call is more or less ready, might try setting up a server this weekend.

Funny way to spell complicit

This is half of it. The other half is the $30M bribe rendered to the Trump family, effectively laundered under the guise of making a documentary. They’ll make their money back coming and going.

Dropped the plot a ways back, too

So add fuel to the fire right?

When you sit down to watch a movie, you know it isn’t real. When you watch media coverage of current events, you should not have to guess if it is or isn’t.

But the problem exists if the average person can’t tell the difference or doesn’t care to verify it. Media literacy is at an all time low, at least in my country (guess). Without regulation, the presence and lack of labeling of AI content on social platforms can only further the decline.

There’s room for all of us to be angry. I think it’s reasonable to complain if you work 50 hours a week for that income, have to be away from your family, who also need to be housed and clothed and to eat and care for their health, and all you have is scraps left over and aren’t saving much, if any.

Yes. That’s the very definition of a protection racket.

I have the right “space bar” on this board mapped to Right Shift, plus a lot of the characters usually accessed with shift, like the symbols above the numbers, are actually on different layers.

Do it! To tell the truth though I’m having trouble getting comfortable typing on it, still feels awkward to me. Had a thought that it would be cool to use as a super macro pad in addition to my main keeb, and I could hand-paint some keycaps for it.